dray

dray

See also: Dray

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: drā, IPA^(key): /dɹeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Etymology 1

From Middle English draye, dreye, from Old English dræġe (“dragnet”), from Proto-Germanic *dragǭ. Cognate with Middle Low German drāge (“stretcher; dray”), Middle High German trage (“a litter”). Related to Old English dragan (“to pull; draw”). More at draw.

Noun

dray (plural drays)

1. A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:

     Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a “jog” at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire

   • September 28 1710, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner:

     Let him be brought into the field of election upon his dray-cart.

2. A kind of sledge or sled.

Derived terms

• drayage, drayman
• drayperson

Translations

horse-drawn cart

Bashkir: арба (arba) Bulgarian: каруца (bg) f (karuca) Chinese: Mandarin: 運貨馬車／运货马车 (zh) (yùnhuò mǎchē) Czech: valník (cs) m Finnish: rattaat (fi) Galician: carreta f Irish: drae m Italian: carro (it) m, carretta (it) f Maori: terei Portuguese: carroça (pt) f Russian: теле́га (ru) f (teléga), воз (ru) m (voz) Spanish: carreta (es) f, carretón (es) m Swedish: drög (sv) c Welsh: car (cy) m, cart (cy) m

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

dray (plural drays)

1. Alternative spelling of drey, the nest of a squirrel.

References

• dray at OneLook Dictionary Search
• dray in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

• Dyar, Rady, Yard, adry, yard

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Verb

dray

1. Alternative spelling of drai